Max Vinetz - "sear"
Max Vinetz - sear
sear calls to mind the unpleasant heat of cooking over a hot stove in the summer, but once you start, you already know it's too late to stop.
Max Vinetz, a composer and current doctoral fellow at Princeton, knows how to create scores well-suited to the now standard model of a contemporary classical ensemble. sear, written for and recently premiered by Alarm Will Sound, is filled with close, Penderecki-esque string whines and shockingly loud blips from the brass and bass drum. Ending with an incessant, out-of-tune drone, Vinetz successfully finds a way to capture his audience, while also making them uncomfortable.
Vinetz's music falls prey to similar shortcomings of large ensemble works of the genre. While slightly intriguing upon first listen, sear becomes familiar and cliché well before the halfway mark. Vinetz's writing is effective, but also incredibly basic in terms of new music. Alarm Will Sound performs dozens of these student works a year, most of which are indistinguishable. sear calls to mind the unpleasant heat of cooking over a hot stove in the summer, but once you start, you already know it's too late to stop.
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